Sentence examples for a first nomination for from inspiring English sources

And there's a first nomination for The Voice (BBC1) which nudges The X Factor off the shortlist for entertainment programme.

There was also a first nomination for singer Adele, for her BBC1 special Adele at the BBC, but nothing for ITV's Downton Abbey in its last chance to break its Bafta TV awards duck.

A package containing a severed leg has proved to be JK Rowling's passport on to the Theakstons longlist, as her novelist alter ego Robert Galbraith picks up a first nomination for the award.

Singleton, who was 24 years old when he wrote Boyz N the Hood, became both the first African American and the youngest person ever to be nominated for the best director Oscar, plus a second nomination for best original screenplay.

In 1952 they earned a second nomination for "The Sniper".

Alt-J also received a second nomination for the album award, for their debut An Awesome Wave.

He received a second nomination for his work on Mike Nichols's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and a third for another Nichols film, "Silkwood".

He won a third nomination for the best actor award with his starring role in A Beautiful Mind (2001), the story of John Forbes Nash, a real-life Nobel Prize-winning mathematician suffering from schizophrenia.

Just a year later, she shed the pounds gained for that project to earn a second nomination for Chicago, only to yoyo again to embody Jones for 2004's ill-fated sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.

While Fontaine topped her sister in 1941, and picked up a third nomination for the 1943 film The Constant Nymph, De Havilland went on to win two Oscars and was nominated three other times.

Once inside, Mr. Miller ambled to his seat and began to reminisce about living in Paris in the 1970s, an experience that provided fodder for his latest novel, "Lovesong," which earned him a sixth nomination for Australia's Miles Franklin Award, a top literary prize.